• Job Description

  Req#: JR-115944

  Our team is seeking a Country HR People Partner in the UK to support our business support functions, operating as a true Business Partner with a bias for action, and the ability to influence business group direction in collaboration with the assigned Strategic HRBP.

  Collaborating across our various HR teams, you will be responsible for driving day-to-day tasks as well as leading or contributing to high-profile projects, local country DEI and engagement initiatives. You should also be adept with managing a diverse stakeholder group, adapting your communication styles to support desired business outcomes, remaining resilient to pushback, and professionally challenging situations.

  You will:

  • HR Governance: Function as a local expert and responsible person for all legal /governance-related topics in the UK and for the dedicated business area where applicable.

  • Talent & Resourcing: Partner with the team to assist talent acquisition activities, influence hiring strategy to support wider incentives

  • Learning & Development: Identify training required and work with the L&D Team to build, promote, and implement successfully across your regions.

  • Performance Management: Maintain a detailed understanding of our country performance management process while ensuring local delivery, and own Performance Improvement Plans & Disciplinary processes.

  • Reward: Collaborate with the Reward team during Annual Salary Review / Bonus processes, advise on legal changes, and provide local insights and inputs where required.

  • Mobility: Support with package/severance discussions and ensure smooth arrival/exit in-country experience for assignees.
    

  You will bring:

  • University Degree / (Bachelor or Master or similar Degree)

  • Great business insight and understanding of key business metrics.

  • Extensive HR experience and practice, ideally with good data insights

  • Broad experience in employee relations and knowledge of UK legislation

  • Experience in working with consultation/employee forums.

  • Proficient in English, fluency in other European languages a bonus

  • Experience within an international matrix organisation

  • Experience in working with and influencing Senior Management on HR issues

  Your new office

  Based at the Weybridge office, you will enjoy a vibrant and friendly working environment with full accessibility. We have an onsite canteen with a wide range of options available, and a barista style coffee shop. There is a well-provisioned onsite gym run by our own Sony Wellbeing Coordinator, with classes on set days in the mornings, at lunch and after work hours. We have a staff car park which includes electric charging points, an undercover and secure bike rack (useful if you’ve made the most of the Cycle-to-Work scheme), or if you will use public transport we have a shuttle bus service that regularly runs between train station and the office at peak times.
  

  Take a look at our Weybridge office here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lwbMOzjoVA
  

  Life at Sony

  We ensure competitive salaries and benefits by using established benchmarking. We encourage healthy work-life balance supported by hybrid and flexible working policies. We are a positive community who dream big together, respect each other, and enjoy a collaborative culture.

  We like to celebrate our colleagues who make a real difference using our recognition platform. We also provide access to numerous services and platforms for all aspects of wellbeing. We listen to our people through conversations and surveys, respect their suggestions, then act on them. We also provide allowances for volunteering days so that our staff can support the causes they are most passionate about.

  You can build your career around you with our fantastic range of learning & personal development programs to enhance your skills. We also encourage our staff to try exciting new roles, in a wide range of countries, with a supportive mobility team to support you if you take that leap!

  Bring your uniqueness to Sony

  We are passionate about creating a culture that promotes equity and cultivates inclusion, diversity, and belonging. We want employees with diverse backgrounds and perspectives that will stimulate innovation and have a direct impact on our creation of social value to fulfil Sony’s purpose – ‘to fill the world with emotion, through the power of creativity and technology’. We want you to bring your unique self to work and help shape our culture.

  We are Sony Europe.

  Our people collaborate in an environment of respect, integrity, and open-mindedness. Diverse teams from all over Europe are the driving force for our business, and we embrace the differences that make each of us original and unique.

  With offices in 28 European countries, Sony Europe caters to consumer, professional, semiconductor and healthcare markets with innovative electronics products and solutions. Our European laboratories research and develop new technologies and capabilities that contributes to the Sony Group and important issues on a planetary scale.

  Bring your passion, creativity and ambitions to Sony Europe. Apply now, and let’s create the future together.

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• About the company

  Sony Corporation is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Kōnan, Minato, Tokyo.

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